tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post1180616179211017747..comments2024-03-28T15:37:04.600+01:00Comments on HOLLYWOOD SPY: DEEPLY HAUNTING TEASER FOR HISTORICAL EPIC DRAMA 'KING PETAR I' SET IN THE TRAGIC AND HEROIC TURMOIL OF WW1! DEZMONDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-23967342274509318662019-10-08T16:12:51.458+02:002019-10-08T16:12:51.458+02:00Yes, your country lost a lot of people too, especi...Yes, your country lost a lot of people too, especially at Gallipoli. And not only that those numbers are true and shocking, Doc, but we also have to have in mind that Serbia suffered through three Balkan wars against Bulgaria just a few years before WW1 which left us without an army, supplies, a destroyed country kicked straight into another war to come out of it as a winner. In those decades from 1870s to 1940s we've probably lost half of the population a couple of times, not to mention the suffering under Ottomans for five hundred years. Truly a living hell... which still continues, because after NATO bombings in 1999 we now suffer under idiots in the form of our president, government and prime ministress :) DEZMONDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-90107049137233992952019-10-08T15:36:53.299+02:002019-10-08T15:36:53.299+02:00Hi Desi
We spoke about the WWI experience of our r...Hi Desi<br />We spoke about the WWI experience of our respective countries (Serbia and Australia) a few years ago. Apart from Serbia the nascent nations of Australia and New Zealand (combined populations of about six million) put over a million in uniform and suffered well over 500,000 casualties. I wrote a paper on Serbia’s war and from available sources calculated over 500,000 military deaths but as many as three times that of civilians, most on the ‘Trail of Tears’ in 1915, out of a population of about 4.5 million. Serbia put 500,000 in uniform at the outbreak of war in 1914. At the time of the second invasion in early 1915 about another 150,000 troops were raised, mainly to replace earlier losses. At the end of the retreat about 40,000 emaciated survivors were left. The French evacuated about 30,000 to Corfu. It is thought that over 1:5 million civilians accompanied the army in the retreat including most of the population of Belgrade (ahead of the Austrians bent on revenge for their earlier humiliation by the hugely outnumbered Serbian army). Nobody knows for sure but it’s believed as many as a million Serb civilians also perished in the retreat as only a few hundred thousand starving survivors reached the coast with the remnants of the army. Amazingly after all this the Serbs raised another army over 200,000 that in 1918 with the Allies (British, French and Greek) took back their country and utterly defeated the Austrians and their German allies. It’s an incredible story and it’s marvellous that they’re making part of it into film.<br />Cheers, DocDoc Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12454394616689797734noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-38681826727487701782018-08-20T11:47:51.550+02:002018-08-20T11:47:51.550+02:00We must, French people and Serbs were massive alli...We must, French people and Serbs were massive allies during both wars, especially the first one, in those years word Serbian was synonym from heroic bravery in France. Many of those who survived were taken in by French hospitals. DEZMONDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-70422549747147015712018-08-20T11:46:14.896+02:002018-08-20T11:46:14.896+02:00hope they do it gloriously, we have so many epic s...hope they do it gloriously, we have so many epic stories from our history that the world has never heard of. DEZMONDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-24525277005687996632018-08-20T08:49:56.017+02:002018-08-20T08:49:56.017+02:00I just spent a few days in Verdun, and this atmosp...I just spent a few days in Verdun, and this atmosphere is a little on these posters/trailer ...dramatic and terrible! We must remember...Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08913029478686087197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-8797627711117838712018-08-20T03:16:59.998+02:002018-08-20T03:16:59.998+02:00A single life lost in war is far too many. It’s tr...A single life lost in war is far too many. It’s truly depressing how many lives lost Serbia has seen. This will be an epic series, I’m sure. Theresa Mahoneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10709965543595065306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-78164160163790056922018-08-19T22:04:45.254+02:002018-08-19T22:04:45.254+02:00I think the actor, Lazar Ristovski, was waiting hi...I think the actor, Lazar Ristovski, was waiting his whole life to become older so that he could play this role. <br />Yes, we were literally surrounded from all sides in both WWs as all of our neighbours were on the side of Nazis in both wars. <br />Imagine them travelling those mountains in the clothes of that time, ill, wounded, poor, exhausted, in the middle of winter, and then even if they survived, most of them ended up in hospitals around Europe, dead or back to break the front in Greece. DEZMONDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-62668816025197559732018-08-19T22:01:58.742+02:002018-08-19T22:01:58.742+02:00I expect it will be the pinnacle of our movie maki...I expect it will be the pinnacle of our movie making here in last few decades. DEZMONDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-13636807458436233152018-08-19T21:47:00.458+02:002018-08-19T21:47:00.458+02:00How very interesting and moving!
Strong profile ph...How very interesting and moving!<br />Strong profile photo of King Petar1!<br />To paraphrase Churchill - so many (nations) against so few(Serbia)!<br /><br />As for the teaser I have no words, only tears. I'll ,however, say this: the landscape of frozen mountains, the witness to the war atrocities, is sure haunting!DUTAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12979375799258978432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-87361916165916109552018-08-19T21:21:42.729+02:002018-08-19T21:21:42.729+02:00Dezzy...what a movie/series this will be! Dezzy...what a movie/series this will be! https://booksthoughtsadventures.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12270725992084535102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-59476926529158785832018-08-19T19:22:36.848+02:002018-08-19T19:22:36.848+02:00Some of the countries, like mine, are still paying...Some of the countries, like mine, are still paying it innocently. DEZMONDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127166104359407763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4651358851207677633.post-22897600063039401002018-08-19T18:50:29.223+02:002018-08-19T18:50:29.223+02:00The terrible, terrible price of war.The terrible, terrible price of war.Debra She Who Seekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01845703092794695023noreply@blogger.com